How To Make An Easy Pop Up Rainbow Card

Send some colorful, good vibes to a friend this spring with this easy pop up rainbow card. This rainbow card is simple and easy to create and makes a great card for a teacher gift, a sweet Mother’s Day card or an everyday card for a friend or loved one.

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Supplies needed:

rainbow pop up card template <—— GET THE TEMPLATE HERE
colored cardstock (all the colors of the rainbow)
white cardstock
pencil for tracing
glue stick
scissors
markers

Tutorial:

1. Print & cut out template

Begin by downloading and printing out the rainbow pop up card template on white cardstock paper. Cut out the pieces of the template.

Make your pop-up card

2. Fold blue paper in half

Grab a light blue piece of cardstock for the base of your rainbow card. Fold it in half to create a card.

3. Trace rainbow

Place the rainbow template on the edge of the folded end of the card. Using a pencil, trace where the bottom of the rainbow lands, about 1-inch up on both sides.

4. Cut slits

Carefully cut slits on the lines you traced on the folded edge of the card.

5. Fold and crease paper along the slits

Fold down and crease the light blue cardstock along the slits you cut. Carefully open up the blue cardstock again, invert the folded pieces of the paper so they stand upright in the crease to create the pop out of the card.

Create your rainbow for your pop-up card

6. Trace rainbow on colored paper

Trace the rainbow template on a piece of red, orange, yellow, green blue and purple cardstock. Cut out each of the arch colors you traced.

7. Trim each of the arches

Use the rainbow template as a guide to trim each of the colored rainbow arches. The red arch does not need to be trimmed at all.

Cut along the first dashed line of the rainbow template to make the correct size for your orange arch. Align the pieces together and trim down the orange arch.

8. Glue orange arch to the red

Place a line of glue along the bottom rim of the red rainbow arch. Line up and glue the orange rainbow arch onto the red arch.

9. Then glue yellow and other colors

Add glue along the bottom of the orange rainbow arch and glue the yellow arch onto it. Keep adding glue at the bottom of each arch and add the remaining arches to create your rainbow.

Assemble your pop-up rainbow card

10. Attach rainbow to the card

Place glue on the two pop out sections of your folded card. Attach your rainbow to the glue.

11. Glue on clouds

Put glue on the back of the white clouds from the pop out card template and glue them at the bottom of each side of the rainbow.

Add finishing touches to your card

12. Write a message

Write a personal message at the bottom of your card with markers. We used the saying “Have a RAINBOW kind of day” with each letter in rainbow represented by a different color.

Depending on who the recipient of your rainbow card will be, there are lots of different rainbow themed sayings you could use.